When Edward Wells was born on 29 July 1851, in Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, his father, Thomas Wells, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Foxon, was 22. He married Hannah Oldfield on 9 September 1883, in Hunslet Moor, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 30 May 1922, in Hunslet, Yorkshire, England, at the age of 70, and was buried in Holbeck Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
The Lendal Bridge was opened in 1863, after a previous failed attempt at building it Thomas Page was brought in to design it. It is an iron bridge styled with the gothic style popular in England. When it was first opened, it was a toll bridge but in 1894, it accepted it’s last toll.
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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